The funeral of Maor Harush, 25, took place in a cemetery in the northern
coastal city Acre. Elior Priess, 26, will be buried in the same cemetery
later in the afternoon.
The bodies of five Israelis were flown into Tel Aviv in a military aircraft
early on Friday morning.
The Wednesday bombing of a bus at Burgas airport on the Black Sea killed five
Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian bus driver, and injured more than 30,
three of them seriously.
Bulgarian police were working flat out Friday with the FBI and Interpol to
identify a suicide bomber who killed five Israeli tourists, as the interior
minister said the attacker was a foreigner.
Investigators have released CCTV footage of the person they believe carried
out Wednesday’s attack in the Black Sea airport of Burgas on a bus carrying
Israeli holiday-makers, which also claimed the life of the Bulgarian driver.
But close to 48 hours after the deadliest attack on Israelis abroad since
2004, authorities had still not identified him. Interior Minister Tsvetan
Tsvetanov said Friday only that the bomber “was not a Bulgarian citizen”.
US officials said the suicide bomber was part of a Hezbollah cell, the New
York Times reported, after Israel made similar allegations.
The paper cited two US officials as saying that the Iranian-sponsored Lebanese
group was behind the attack.
It cited a third official as saying that the bomber was “acting under broad
guidance” from the Lebanese Hezbollah group and its main sponsor Iran to
strike Israeli targets of opportunity.
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